This is some rough code that tries to get Nano Emacs (by Nicolas Rougier) and Doom Emacs (by Henrik Lissner) to play nice together.

doom-nano-testing

This is my attempt at adapting the gorgeous Nano Emacs by Nicolas Rougier to work with the powerhouse that is Doom Emacs.

I am a learning coder and did not write most of the code in this repo. What I've done is trimmed down the Nano codebase to just the files I need and wrote some code to get it working and looking the way I like.

Load this code by adding the cloned repo to the load path and requiring it in your private config. Like so for instance:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/build/doom-nano-testing")
(require 'load-nano)

Files I wrote:

• load-nano.el - This file loads Nano and attempts to fix some issues with cursor appearance. This file is something of a testbed for my attempts to understand/fix compatibility issues between doom and nano.
• nano-face-override.el - This file is necessary for forcing faces to /not look so flipping crazy/. Doom's custom-set-faces! does not seem to work at all because of the way that Nano redefines faces. There is undoubtedly a better/easier way of accomplishing this which would likely involve lots of work on nano-faces.el or replacing the way that file works entirely with doom functionality. As it is now, I've been adding code to this file every time I come across a face that looks out of place. Colors used in this file are all hard-coded and don't follow any sort of best-practices. They are the result of me seeing something insane (Hot pink is the default for sh-quoted-exec? I'm not having that.) and having to immediately change it for yak shaving glory. When you use this, you can possibly end up with errors about undefined faces. As I understand it, this is due to lazy loading. Solve it by wrapping the set-face-attribute in question with (after!). There are several examples of this in the file.

Files from Nano containing large scale changes by me:

• nano-faces.el - I've changed the font from Roboto Mono to Hack Nerd Font. Find/Replace will let you set whatever your favorite font is. Hack doesn't have 20 weights like Roboto Mono, which is not a problem for me but do expect that using a different font than the Nano default will result in a very different look, especially if the chosen font doesn't have as many weights as Roboto Mono.
• nano-theme-light.el - This has been completely changed to suit my aesthetic desire. I expect anyone who clones this repo will want to adapt this to their own preferred color scheme. Using the dark theme from the Nano repo should be easy enough; one could replace the contents of this file with those of the dark scheme, or one could edit nano-theme.el to load the dark theme file instead. The possibilities are endless.

I've decided to upload this code for a few reasons:

1. Doom Emacs needs a :ui nano module! I'm willing to contribute to that, once I have more time.
2. My code, though likely not optimal, is usable as is (for me at least). I've discussed using it in a few internet communities and have had people ask me about it. Now there's a repo I can direct them to.
3. I'm learning this stuff in a hobbyist fashion! I want to contribute to the open source community and this is something I can do with the knowledge I have right now. I really hope that someone with more knowledge than I sees this and, whether out of outrage at my bad code, or because they like this idea as much as I do, decides to write some better code that I can learn from and shamelessly use for myself.

Sources, and inspiration:

Nano Emacs

Doom Emacs

Screenshots: